- shrimp plant really looks like shrimp. - haworthia 'star window' has translucent window-like leaves that are fascinating. - haworthia 'zebra' is another really cool haworthia - aeonium schwarzkopf is a beautiful, striking purple color - lamb's ear is soft and cuddly - many kalanchoe varieties are quite hairy and strange-looking. - and then there's horsetail plant. its a very tall, strange, almost reed-appearing plant, but it is extremely aggressive, and once it flowers (which doesn't look like a flower, but more a swelling at the tip), it sends out spores and it is never to be gotten rid of. i have found my favorite strange plants by going to places that sell succulents and just browsing for what looks unusual.

My FT system is working well at present. I harvested a bucket (10 litres) of castings today just by using a shovel in the access hole. It sure beats bending down and scraping! I just checked, and already some more has fallen in the hours since I harvested. As an excercise, I went through the bucket of castings and found about 30 - 40 worms and a few cocoons, probably not enough to justify the time spent. I decided to put them back in, as they can keep working the castings until I am ready to use them, which will also help stop them going smelly as they dry out a bit more. My defnition of FT is that raw material goes in the top, and the finished product comes out the bottom. Simple as that. I would love someone to prove that they can get air to flow through what is essentially 2 feet of mud. The open area at the bottom does increase the surface area exposed to air, and worms working the bottom probably cause a bit of added aeration, but I really don't see a system of air galleries from top to bottom that would be required for air to flow. If this forum software wasn't so weird, I would add some photo's.

How about instead of moving the door. Leave the door in the middle and run the sinks down the wall you show now(against the walk in closet) You have plenty of room to split them up so they are not on top of each other. When you move the door to the side you loose the ability in the bedroom to use that corner. Then you could still put a privacy wall up and put a bigger wall storage unit on the exterior wall (bottom right). You know I looked at it again and I will tell you your big wow is going to be looking in and seeing that huge shower and all the glass and tile. The drawback of that wall is going to be it's going to break up the space. I just tore a wall out in my room like that and I am so happy I did. First I was going to make it a kneewall then I said "get rid of it!" It opened up the whole space. How about change the swing of the door put toilet in upper right with solid wall when you walk in and then a door that opens into the toilet space. IOW if you were sitting on the toilet you would be looking out the window. Sinks along the bottom wall with a floor to ceiling storage in lower right. That keeps all your visual blocks close to where you enter the space. and leaves the deep end of the bathroom looking open and spacious.

oooh, you could put all sorts of things up there! Miss Molly and Zaya have given you some good ideas! How about a birdcage, or pottery, picture, and greenery is always pretty. Let your imagination run free!! ;O Mustangs has some pretty vignettes in her kitchen. Calling Mustangs,.....where are you?! Miss Molly...where have you been, girl? I haven't seen you around in a looong time! How is your home decorating coming along? I remember how pretty your room looked after you painted!